You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..

You must add your link in Mr.Linky

You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.

You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.

Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)

DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...

We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Well I know some of the MDUC DT gals were wondering WHO chose this challenge when they realised what colours they had to work with - but they all did an AMAZING job in the end. And you guys were certainly up to the challenge too. We see our National Flags all the time but don't always think of them in terms of offering a colour combo for our crafting too - but boy some of them look amazing!

Once again we had a really tight vote and this week and I won't keep you in suspense any longer about our winner - congratulations.......

Dorothy {42}

What an AMAZING card Dorothy created using the colours from the Dutch flag.I just love all the different nautical elements she's included and the fabulous fold which showcases everything so well. If you want to check out more of Dorothy's work you can check out her blog HERE.

Dorothy - can you please email Karen at karen.yates22@yahoo.com to claim your winner's badge and prize.

And now it's onto this week's Top 5 listed in numerical order. We'd like to congratulate these amazing entries - awesome job everyone....

These are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our next challenge and meet our newest GDT.

I hope everyone had a Bonza Australia Day yesterday, with lots of backyard cricket, BBQ's, and water fights!!! (Well everyone Australian) Everyone who isn't Australian, we hope you had a wonderful day too!!

(So now you can all see the reason behind our challenge of National Flag!! There is still time to enter too....)

We had a little drama last week, with poor me having to do 2 re-draws for our Special Guest Spot :'( I certainly didn't like doing that very much, because I don't want you to miss out, but we made the rules, so it's best we stick to them, to keep it fair!

Congratulations Becky!! Can you please send me an email to me, karen.yates22@yahoo.com within the next 24 hours to claim your Special Guest Designer spotand also to receive your Super Cool and fabulous Special Guest Designer Badge, and also let you in on the secret, on what we would like you to do!!!

If I don't hear from you by 6.00PM Saturday 28th January Melbourne Time, I will have to do a re-draw.... and we don't want that, so email me quick sticks!!!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Well, it's been over 24 hours and unfortunately, I haven't heard from Milo!!! (OMGOSH what a shame, to miss out!!) Milo was our Lucky Re-draw Special Guest Designer, so I've been over to Random Org. for another re-draw (and this is the last time this week..... so hopefully 3rd time Lucky!!!!) and this is who he picked:

Celine, please send me an email karen.yates22@yahoo.com to claim your Special Guest Designer spot and super cool badge. I will also advise you on what we would like you do to!!!

You have 24 hours to contact me!!!!!

Also have you seen that our new challenge started this morning, it's National Flag, we want to see the colours of your nation's flag in your card design..... scroll down to check out the fantastic work from our 1st Special Guest Designer Tina, and the amazing inspirational work from our Design Team:-)

I will be drawing another Special Guest Designer on Friday - so make sure you check back, it could be your lucky number and what a total shame to miss out!!!

Good morning Magnolia Fans! WOW - your black and white image cards were fantastic! I was so inspired by them I think I need to make another one! But first, lets check out this week's sponsor....

This week we welcome back our amazing sponsor for this week, Tilda's Town!

Tilda's Town is an online store that specializes in Magnolia stamps. We carry one of the largest inventories in USA and the world with over 1000 Magnolia stamps in stock at all times. Our shipping is always free worldwide regardless of order total. Whether you buy one stamps or 100, you will never pay shipping. As an added bonus, all orders above $60 can get an additional 10% by using discount code TILDA10. Shop today for the latest collections!

This week Tilda's Town is offering a lucky winner a $15 Gift Certificate! With a new collection to be released very soon, I can imagine someone is going to be very happy with this prize! Thank you so much Tilda's Town!

And the challenge this week is to "Create a project in the colours of your National Flag"..... this may be tricky for some.... but we KNOW you are all up to the challenge! We do ask that you note in your blog post the colours that feature on your flag so we can see them clearly in your card.

This week we have our first Special Guest joining us. Please help us give TINA a big MDUC welcome. She has created a fabulous card to share and inspire you. Don't forget to drop by her blog and leave her some love....

You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..

You must add your link in Mr.Linky

You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.

You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.

Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)

DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...

We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

I have just LOVED checking out the entries this week - the mix of B&W images with colours ranging from muted tones to cheeky and bright was stunning. We hope you enjoyed it too.

Before I announce our winner though I want to mention our weekly Guest DT spot - we are sooo happy to have so many of you wanting to play along but you MUST check the announcementpost Karen posts on Friday evenings AEST. Unfortunately we've had to re-draw so check out if YOU are our GDT on Karen's new post right below this one!

Now onto this week's winner - it really is a shame we can only pick ONE person! Congratulations.....

Yulis {22}

What a truly gorgeous scene Yulis has created and I love how she's framed it textures and splashes of pink and gold. If you want to check out more of Yulis' work check out her blog HERE.

Yulis can you please email Karen at karen.yates22@yahoo.com to claim your winner's badge and prize.

And now it's onto this week's Top 5 listed in numerical order - oh OK we have a Top 6 again - we do TRY to keep it to 5 but you guys make it soooo hard - LOL. We'd like to congratulate these amazing entries - awesome job everyone....

These are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our next challenge and meet our very first GDT.

Milo, can you please send Karen, (me) an email karen.yates22@yahoo.com within the next 24 hours toclaim your Special Guest Spot and Badge and of course to find out the details, on what we would like you to do!!

If I don't hear from you within the specified time frame, we will have a re-draw, this will allow the next lucky person enough time to create something for us :-)

Keep on adding your names to the list, there is still plenty of Special Guest Designer Spots to be won.

And Stay Tuned, Debbie will be posting our Lucky Winner of the Black and White Challenge soon... OMGOSH WHO has won?????

Madge, can you please send Karen, (me) an email karen.yates22@yahoo.com within the next 24 hours to claim your Special Guest Spot and Badge and of course to find out the details, on what we would like you to do!!

If I don't hear from you within the specified time frame, we will have a re-draw, this will allow the next lucky person enough time to create something for us :-)

Keep on adding your names to the list, there is still plenty of Special Guest Designer Spots to be won.

There is still time to enter into our Black and White Challenge - we are seeing some gorgeous creations from you guys, remember you have until 8AM Melbourne Australian time to get your entry in.... we will be announcing the winner tomorrow night, and our next challenge will be up on Sunday Morning. Also this challenge will feature our first Special Guest Designer, Tina's creation along with some inspirational stuff from the rest of the Design Team...

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Welcome back to another fantastic challenge at Magnolia Down Under Challenges. We are really excited to see all of you wanting to be our Guest DT. Keep on linking up as it could be YOU next week! For more information, please click HERE.

Stampy Land is an online store which specializes in Magnolia Stamps and many other world renowned manufacturers. Shipping in our store is always free worldwide. Keep an eye on our store as we continue to add more brands over the next few weeks. For additional stamping or scrapbooking supplies please visit our sister store scrapyland.com.

Stampy Land are generously giving a lucky winner a $20 gift voucher to spend in store! Thank you so much Stampy Land.

This week's challenge is to create something with your image coloured in black and white. You can use as much colour on your creation as you like so long as the image is coloured black and white... If you require clarrification, please check out with the DT has done for us:

You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..

You must add your link in Mr.Linky

You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.

You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.

Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)

DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...

We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Goodness gracious me what an AMAZING start to 2012 we've had - 190 FABULOUS entries to check out and you guys certainly made our week by coming along to play. We were also so excited to reach over 1000 followers AND see how many of you gorgeous crafters wanted to come along and play as our GDT - we're looking forward to crafting with a lot of you over the next few weeks!

Congrats toTina Makuc on being our first GDT - we hope you still want to play - please respond to Karen's email atkaren.yates22@yahoo.com by 7pm Melbourne time (12 hours after the new challenge post goes live) or we will have a re-draw to give someone else time to create something for us....

You did make life a little tough for us trying to choose just one winner - the final votes were extremely close with there only being 7 votes difference between 1st and 8th place! Thank goodness I had the wonderful MDUC DT to help and this week we'd like to congratulate........

Karita {87}

Isn't just fabulous to see one of the older style of Tildas looking so gorgeous. Karita has done an amazing job with these soft shades of blue and white and Karita's colouring is just gorgeous. If you want to see more of Karita's work check out her blog HERE.

Karita can you please email Karen at karen.yates22@yahoo.com to claim your winner's badge and prize.

And now it's onto this week's Top 5 listed in numerical order - but with the votes being so close we've ended up with a Top SIX. We'd like to congratulate these amazing entries - awesome job everyone....

These are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our very first challenge for 2012.

Tina, I, Karen (karen.yates22@yahoo.com) will be emailing you soon with some details on what we would like you to do for our up coming challenge #130!!!! I hope you are as happy as we all are to have you, come and play along with us!!!

Now don't worry everyone, there is plenty more Special Guest Designer spots to be had!!! we will be announcing another Special Guest Designer spot winner next Friday!!!

We also have a really, super cool, Magnolia Down Under Guest Designer Badge currently in development... So, Tina, we will send you that out via email, hopefully within the next week:-)

Don't forget you still have some time to enter into our current Challenge of Anything Goes which is sponsored by ever so lovely Bron from Shop Bron... just click on the link to go and check it out!!

Anyway that's it from me this week, stay tuned for out next post tomorrow night and of course Sunday morning (Australian Eastern Standard Time) for another awesome challenge!!

Did you have a fantastic holiday break? We did and we are all refreshed and ready for a fantastic 2012!Thanks so much for your continued support and amazing creations. We can't wait to get started this week, we're really getting into the spirit of the season.

We have our wonderful regular sponsor here with us this week... Shop Bron:

Shopbron specialises in Magnolia Stamps, Magnolia paper and doo hickeys with an extensive range of Copic Sketch markers and blending paper for any budget. Shopbron is based on the belief that our customers' needs are of the utmost importance. Our aim is to maintain consistent good pricing to keep you going with your passion, quick, easy and affordable postage from Australia. We are hoping the service has you coming back for more. As a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals.

Bron is very generously giving away an adorable "Koala Hugs Tilda" stamp to a lucky winner. This stamp was designed by Pauline exclusively for Bron and she has been very popular. I am sure there are many of you who would LOVE to have her in their Maggie collection.

So... what do you have to do to win? Anything! Anything at all - so long as it features a Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey... as our challenge this week is....

You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..

You must add your link in Mr.Linky

You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.

You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.

Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)

DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...

We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.